CHANGES

By the end of the fifteenth month (June 2002):
(T dose: 200 mg Testosterone Cypionate biweekly)

It has now been 15 months since I began hormone therapy. I quit writing monthly reports about the effects I’ve seen since being on testosterone because they no longer seemed significant on that time scale. It has now been three months since my last report, and there are definitely new things to describe - namely hair and muscles.

At this very moment I’m wearing a bit of chin hair. It still looks like one of those god awful tranny boy beards, but I decided to give it a few days before I shaved it. I usually stay pretty clean shaven.  All and all, I would rate my facial hair for a 35 year old man as pathetic, but I am finally starting to see some sideburn hair. Most of the hair on the sides of my face is growing on the left side. My body and facial hair grows first on that side for some reason. It usually evens out over time though.

I have a line of hair from my navel to the middle of my chest, and hair that covers my pectoral region. I’ve had this hair for quite sometime, but what is significant about it now is that it is beginning to darken up. It’s quite impressive seeing that my father had absolutely no hair on his chest. My surgery got rid of the coarse hairs I had around my nipples (I never cared for them since they would grow to incredible lengths if I didn’t trim them). However, I now have three of those hairs on my left shoulder now - yuck.

Muscle development is taking off. I’ve been working out quite a bit since top surgery, and in the past couple of days I can really tell it’s paying off. I still have a bit of a gut, but I’ve lost ten pounds since January. I’m not sure if all of this is due to my workout routine, or the effects of the hormones. Maybe it’s a combination of the two. I feel great and sexy. I can almost get back into the pants I wore before my thyroid stopped working.
 
As far as other hormone related things go, there isn’t much new to report. I’m still rather horny, and porno is beginning to bore me (God, did I actually write that????). My libido is strong, but it doesn’t seem to distract me as much anymore. I masturbate to relief the stress that my libido puts on me, and that takes the edge off. It’s effective enough to allow me to thing of others things during the day. That’s a big step from a year ago.

Acne is a problem every now and then. I wrote about some sort of glitch I had earlier this month that really broke my face out, but I’m back to normal now. I have one or two zits during my shot cycle, and that is as good as my pre-T acne pattern. I occasionally get a zit on my chest or my back. I had a big one on my back last week, and now I have a small one on my lower chest. No real problems though - I can deal with a few now and then.

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